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To: JohnM who wrote (50968)6/20/2004 1:04:45 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (2) of 793928
 
Here are some income level/drop out rates that come out as I suspected, John. It has more to do with poor study habits and family support than poverty.

........Along the same lines, in yesterday's (Seattle) Times story about lowering high school graduation standards we read that:

More than a third of the district's high school students do not graduate. Half of the African-American and Latino students, who make up a disproportionate share of low-income students, do not complete high school.
These facts are also true, but again hardly the comprehensive story. The subtext is that African-Americans and Latinos are disadvantaged minorities whose underachievement is explained by poverty (and not by, say, poor study habits and insufficient support for educational achievement within the family). On the other hand, Vietnamese and Chinese students have even lower drop-out rates than Whites, even though a much larger percentage of them are low-income (not to mention English-learning immigrants).

Group .....Percent Low-income....... Drop-out Rate

Vietnamese ....68.4% ......6.1%
African American ....65.8% ....14.8%
Latino .....60.6% ........15.1%
Chinese .....42.8% .......2.8%
White ......13.1% .......7.8%

This is certainly interesting, but it doesn't help the Seattle Times peddle its fairytale about the "achievement gap between white students and students of color" and the implication that underachievement is caused by poverty and white racism. So don't expect the exceptional academic achievements of Asian students to get much play in the Seattle Times.

thatliberalmedia.com
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